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FK Pelikán Děčín

football club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2023
Entity authorityQ5426308 ↗
Source-derived summary

FK Pelikán Děčín was a Czech football club. They were founded in 1921. The club was dissolved in 1998 after finishing second in the 1997–98 season of the Bohemian Football League.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “FK Pelikán Děčín” is football club. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Pelikán, Děčín and football, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1921, 1998, 1997—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1921. For this dossier, Pelikán, Děčín and football is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “football club” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q5426308. VIAF identifies the subject as 127154792. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1921, 1998 and 1997.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “FK Pelikán Děčín”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow FK Pelikán Děčín primary sources, FK Pelikán Děčín archive and Pelikán research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “FK Pelikán Děčín”?
  2. Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
  3. Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “FK Pelikán Děčín” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.